MooPig 'Stuff No One Wants to Hear About' Department :: "Tell us the Truth, MothaFukkers"

Old-Age Stuff, OAS, #100
Mashed Articles by Pat Darnell  |  Feb 1, 2014  |  Bryan TX

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"Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, and lean protein, he [Dr. Dwight Lundell] recommends. (DAILY MAIL REPORTER. 29 January 2014. LINK)"

Many comebacks have roots in rags to riches, fat to thin, thin to fat, broken to healed ... MooPig editors know that you, dear reader, don't want to hear all that much about Old-Age Stuff. Because we all know there is no rebound from old-age to youthfulness as yet.

Our handy Pocket Reference on Old-Age tells us that older humans are "mostly harmless." Attrition has made its claim and that is the Crux of that Bizkit.

Possibly the most difficult thing to confess is that each of us find later in life that most, if not all of our lives' have been a fraud. Unless one makes things with his own hands, and makes a living doing those things, then most of his life is otherwise moot.

That brings us to Doctors. Apparently no one is looking out for the general good health of humans. Sure, there must be some altruistic good Samaritans in the world who are also in a position of authority, but modern Internet transparency shows that most authorities are just swank morons, holding onto their power with everything that is foul and immoral. We just really need some mothafukkers to step aside and quit gumming up our bidness.

At the referenced article:

• Dr. Dwight Lundell has dished the dirt on 'what really causes heart disease' - processed foods
• He admits prescribing cholesterol-lowering medications, and a low-fat, high-simple carbohydrate diet for two-and-a-half decades was misguided
• 'These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible,' he writes in an essay that has ignited the Internet
• He claims these foods actively destroy the walls of our blood vessels by causing chronic inflammation, which in turn causes heart disease
• The cardiac surgeon recommends only eating foods your grandmother, or great-grandmother, would recognize (DAILY MAIL REPORTER. 29 January 2014. LINK)

Heart surgeon confesses that processed food is slowly killing everyone and natural food is the answer | Mail Online: "Dr. Dwight Lundell has dished the dirt on 'what really causes heart disease' and he admits prescribing cholesterol-lowering medications, and a low-fat, high-simple carbohydrate diet for two-and-a-half decades was misguided. 'These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible,' he writes in an essay, that has been posted on some 250,000 Facebook pages since it appeared on a website called Tuned Body in December."

"The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated. (Dr. Dwight Lundell. Dec 8, 2013. LINK)

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CONCLUSION
It is difficult to write a short-short essay on most topics concerning health and old-age. Each life is a mosaic of patterns and works that cannot be compartmentalized in a "blog post." But we try, and it usually comes with a cost: "Too Much Information," TMI.

We enjoy this article by Dr. Dwight Lundell, because of his clever way of describing the work of our human circulatory systems. In the comments of his article many dissenters harp on about how this article is not foot-noted, and it is missing publication evidence for his claims.

We don't let stuff like that stop us from being curious. We find Dr. Dwight Lundell to be humble and ahead of the curve of authoritarians of the day. So there. His health warnings might after all send us MooPigsters on a very different path, and our notice of a diet paradigm shift will improve our lives, and our quality of old-age-life will improve.

In all honesty, this is the best we at MooPig Wisdom can do concerning health and living, because to delve further would require finding primary research resources that are hidden behind pay-walls. Then we would have to solicit someone with advanced degrees to decipher those documents. Our operation is low budget, really no budget. We hope you dear reader have some input for us.

Dr. Dwight Lundell, it seems to me, has a valid point of view in that he has been cutting into human bodies and finding corroded arteries for 25 years [two and half decades]. That tells me more than a indecipherable medical paper that is hidden behind paywalls, and would take advanced degrees to read. Hands on, up in your face, advice is important.

Yes, there are skinny fat people and fat skinny people but there are few old fat people. I think I will take his "colloquial" advice to heart.


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2548066/Heart-surgeon-confesses-processed-food-slowly-killing-natural-food-answer.html
http://www.tunedbody.com/heart-surgeon-declares-really-causes-heart-illness/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2547944/Are-YOU-hooked-caffeine-Experts-warn-against-growing-dependence-tea-coffee-Coke.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2547543/Multiple-sclerosis-triggered-FOOD.html

MooPig Update :: "Estrogen Dominance"

Snagged by Pat Darnell  |  Mar 6, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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http://www.facebook.com/julianlennonofficial

MooPig Email FWD :: "Estrogen Dominance"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Feb 26, 2013  |  Bryan TX

Al Sears, MD
11903 Southern Blvd., Ste. 208
Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411

February 26, 2013

Can This "Health Food" Shrink Your Manhood?

Dear Patdarnell,

It really gets my goat that they're getting you to eat this stuff.

Is this "healthy" chicken sandwich a
threat to your manhood?

Like that grilled chicken sandwich that they've been telling you is so good for you...

Eat enough of them and they'll turn you into a plump, moody, weepy female.

And the veggie burgers? Don't get me going. They're even worse.

No joke.

These fake health foods can take away everything that makes life great for a man.

But there's an easy way to get up every morning and feel charged, optimistic and confident again. Ambitious and full of energy.

My patients who have experienced this are some of my happiest, and are on top of their game again.

Let me show you what I mean...

The average chicken sandwich comes from chickens that are pumped full of the hormones that your body thinks are estrogen.

That veggie burger, too. Soy products are highly estrogenic.

Estrogen is what makes a woman a woman... but too much can "feminize" a man, and start to turn him into a woman.

Commercial beef, poultry and soy products are a HUGE source of this fake estrogen. Add cheese? That's more estrogen. Add some bacon? Even more.

That lettuce, tomato that are supposed to be so "healthy"? Yep, you guessed it, more fake estrogen in the form of chemicals sprayed on your vegetables while they're still in the ground.

These fake estrogens have a structure that makes them a dead ringer for the real thing... and your body can't tell the difference. I call them "estrogen mimics."

Ketchup has ingredients that have the same effect. Even the grain in your sandwich bun is tainted.

And the more estrogen that gets into your blood, the more your manhood shrinks. That means more belly fat, your energy tanks and your sex life goes the way of the woolly mammoth.

Is this a scientific fact? No, not yet, because the medical establishment has refused to invest the money to do the tests necessary to prove this. But do I believe it's true? Absolutely. And I'll tell you why...

I Bet Your Doctor Never Told You This...

There are almost no clinical trials that have studied estrogen dominance and its effects. Truth is, most doctors don't even realize excess estrogen is the "hidden cause" of the problems a lot of guys face every day.

Don't be fooled... veggie burgers made with soy could "feminize" your body.

Clinical trials are helpful, but there are problems with relying only on what you read in a handful of medical journals.

Modern medicine often gets hung up on these placebo trials and completely ignores the evidence right in front of them.

Just like they ignore the oldest systems of medicine in the world even though they have thousands of years of real-world trials behind them.

And today, science lags as many as 15 years behind what doctors in practice know.

In the case of estrogen dominance, it's been more than 20 years, and modern science still hasn't gotten around to studying this effect that only I and a few other doctors have caught on to.

That's how long ago I started seeing a connection between estrogen mimics in the environment and complaints from my male patients about low energy and a softening of their male features.

So I started to research for myself when I realized what was beginning to happen in today's world. As a doctor, I knew I had to do something about this completely new problem. So I came up with a solution to address it.

Since then, I've been helping men use this one simple approach that helps reduce and begin to wipe out the effects of too much estrogen. I've helped thousands of men keep their true strength, vitality and ability to perform.

That's a two-decade, real-world trial right there.

And I believe, from my success with men in my clinic that this solution can quickly restore your estrogen levels to a healthy balance, starting you back on the road to a lean body and a focused mind.

STAND UP And Reclaim Your Power As A Man

It doesn't matter what condition you're in now. I've seen it all. And I've fully restored men you might consider "lost causes."

One patient, who we'll call "P.L.", came to my clinic complaining of 4 out of the 5 classic symptoms of what I call "estrogen dominance." He was chronically tired, emotionally out of sorts, had a beer belly, a double chin and was losing his ability to perform.

When I checked his testosterone, it was down to 384, a level you'd expect to see in an old man. (At the time, P.L. was in his early 40s.) Also not a surprise, his estrogen was close to 200, which is more than most women.

Here's the bottom line: Estrogen makes you fat. That's why they give it to farm animals. It starts with a smooth layer of fat under the skin that robs you of muscle definition. Then it grows into a fat belly, a round face and "man boobs."

In P.L.'s case, he only weighed 175 pounds but was carrying a lot of body fat (35%). That's technically obese, but he didn't really look "overweight," just bloated and out of shape.

But look what happened when I gave him my estrogen "antidote."

Body Composition Chart

% of Body Fat 35%

29% 22% 15%

Pounds of Body Fat

58 51 37 28

Lean Body Mass

108 125 133 157

Look at the top line. His body fat percentage went from 35% all the way down to a much leaner 15%.

The middle line, "pounds of fat," shows the amount of fat he was carrying went from 58 pounds down to a more manageable 28.

And on the last line, his "lean body mass," which measures how much muscle you have, went up from 108 to 157.

After three months, his estrogen dropped and his testosterone started to rise. Plus he built 49 pounds of muscle and lost 30 pounds of fat.

Kick Excess Estrogen To The Curb And
Get Your Manhood Back NOW

As an MD who is also an ACE certified fitness instructor, coach and consultant to professional athletes, I know how to keep men it top condition. In fact, I've built my reputation on it.

Like the thousands of men who come to my clinic for help... including guys like "P.L."... I'll show you EXACTLY how my strategy works and how it can put YOU back in the saddle again.

First, let me show you what we're up against.

It's Not Just In Your Food...
Estrogen Is A Staple Of Our Plastic World

You don't see it, feel it or taste it... but estrogen gets into your blood every day.

Sometimes it's in the food you eat, sometimes it's in the plastic products you use. But whether you know it or not, there's a steady stream of this feminizing hormone getting into your bloodstream.

As you've already seen, ranchers in the meat and poultry industries inject their cattle and chickens with estrogen to "fatten them up," and speed up the time it takes them to reach "maturity."

And every time you eat a burger or chicken sandwich made from these animals, you're likely getting the estrogen that animal had when it was slaughtered.

Even the soy products are to blame, as any soy product that has not been fermented is highly estrogenic. (The fermented products like soy sauce and tofu are the exceptions.)

What may be ever worse, modern industry produces thousands of chemicals that get into your everyday environment. And the majority of these chemicals and compounds mimic the female hormone estrogen.

The problem is that many of these chemicals have a molecular structure that closely resembles the female hormone estrogen.

When these estrogen look-a-likes get into your bloodstream, they attach to estrogen receptors and give your cells a new set of feminizing instructions.

You see, your receptors are like "landing pads" on the surface of your cells that receive incoming nutrients and information.

And when these "estrogen mimics" bind with your cells' receptors, your cells don't realize it's a chemical and not the real thing. And in response to these new "messages," your body gradually rebuilds itself to become more feminine.

One of the first signs of excess estrogen is increased fat deposition in your breast and belly. But long before you get "man boobs," most men will get a gradual "softening."

First, you may develop a soft, "dough boy" appearance as your muscle is replaced by fat. Over time, you may start to lose your masculine edge, your confidence and sense of purpose. You may feel tired or moody and your bedroom performance may not be as strong as it used to be.

Ever Use A Plastic Bag Or Drink From A Plastic Cup?

Plastic is by far the worst offender... and in today's world, plastic is almost impossible to avoid. Chemicals like the widely publicized "bisphenol A" or BPA are highly estrogenic and found in almost all plastic products.

Other countries around the world have banned BPA, but it's still a favorite in the US. And aside from the obvious dangers of plastic, big industry puts thousands of chemicals into the items you use everyday.

Here are just a few examples:

• Vinyl flooring
• Detergents
• Shampoo
• Soaps
• Deodorants
• Garden hoses
• Pesticides
• Fertilizers

These estrogen look-a-likes are waging war on your masculinity. They attack your testosterone. This gradually saps your strength, muscle, ambition, competitive spirit and sexual performance.

But there's an "estrogen antidote" I use with my male patients that helps support a healthy balance of estrogen and helps you reclaim your natural masculine energy and body type.

EstroCleanse is easy to use and goes to work right away. The key ingredients transform the feminizing estrogen into a "neutral" form.

That means you can easily minimize the feminizing force of estrogen so you have an easier time when you:

• Want to boost muscle mass.
• Start to slim down and get rid of your "spare tire."
• Begin to ramp up your endurance in and out of the bedroom.
• Get back into the game with more ambition, more energy and more confidence.

EstroCleanse is safe and natural, too. In fact, these powerful estrogen-neutralizing compounds come from vegetables.

Use My Phytonutrient Secret To Zap Estrogen

Published research over last ten years suggests you can neutralize excess estrogen with extracts from "crucifers," a group of vegetables including broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and cabbage.

Here's why: The way estrogen is "metabolized" or broken down in your body is critical to how it acts when it gets into your bloodstream.

Certain compounds found in cruciferous vegetables turn the "feminizing" estrogen into a more beneficial version. One of the best compounds is indole-3-carbinol (I3C), a phytochemical found in cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli.

When you eat a vegetable like broccoli, your body breaks it down into multiple compounds, one of which is I3C.

I3C helps convert the less-desirable "feminizing" estrogens into neutral or even helpful estrogens such as 2-hydroxyestrone.

Studies published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and the Journal of Endocrinology support the ability of I3C to convert the "bad" estrogen into a neutral metabolite.1,2

When I3C gets to your digestive tract, part of it converts into diindolylmethane (DIM), another "estrogen neutralizer."

Together, I3C and DIM play an active role in clearing your body of excess estrogen.

Not only does this simple solution help promote a healthy balance of estrogen, it helps promote a healthy testosterone to estrogen ratio, which can lead to maintaining the energy, power and performance men feel when they're younger.

Feel Strong And On Top Of The World

As a certified ACE fitness instructor and coach to professional athletes, my first priority is optimizing a man's testosterone to estrogen ratio.

Your ratio of testosterone to estrogen should be at least 4:1. That's four parts testosterone to one part estrogen. The higher your ratio, the more masculine you'll look and feel.

To really feel strong and on top of the world, it's better to get closer to 8:1.

But these days, a lot of guys have ratios that are below 4:1. Once you fall below 4:1, you'll start to experience the depressing and power-robbing symptoms of "estrogen dominance."

Aside from EstroCleanse, there are also other ways to boost your testosterone and lower your estrogen so you can keep your strength and manhood...

These are techniques I use with my male patients that help them increase their sexual performance... maintain well-defined muscles... strengthen their heart's pumping power... keep a normally-functioning prostate... and more.

Never Again Will You Have To Listen To A Doctor Tell You:
"It's Just Part Of The Aging Process..."

When you order EstroCleanse today, I'll send you the e-book version of my "Bible" for safeguarding your manhood called 12 Secrets to Virility: A Man's Guide to Peak Health, Great Sex, and Powerful Living... at no extra charge.

Thousands of copies of this 198-page best seller have been sold at $19.95. It contains the core of everything I do to help men live a more powerful, sexually-charged lifestyle. And it will help you regardless of how old you are or what condition you're currently in.

12 Secrets to Virility exposes the dangers of estrogen and gives you quick and powerful ways to:

• Toss Your Viagra in the Trash: My simple 2-step strategy for turbo-charging your sexual performance will keep you ready for action no matter what your age.
• Eat the Foods You Love Guilt Free: Stop torturing yourself with low-fat "health food." I'll show you how to enjoy your New York strip and improve your heart health at the same time.
• Live Pain-Free: Jump out of bed, run to the store, walk a round of golf... you'll use the quick and easy solutions that slash your risk of arthritis and reduce joint pain forever.
• Eat Food Fit for a Man: Don't fall for the biggest con of our time. Cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease, and eating fat doesn't make you fat. Learn from your ancestors and get back on the path of vibrant health.
• Stay Virile to 100: Learn to measure the "bio-markers" of aging. These hidden forces determine how quickly you age. You can take steps to reverse them. This puts the power of choice back in your hands.
• Rebuild a Super-Healthy Heart: Find out why your heart is starving for energy... and which miracle nutrient can revitalize it.
• Boost Your Brain Power: Your brain shrinks as you get older... robbing you of memory and the ability to think clearly. But that doesn't mean you have to sit back and let it happen. Discover the nutrients that reawaken a youthful and razor-sharp mind.
• 12 Secrets to Virility reveals the real truth about male health and aging. It details exactly what I use in my own practice to restore the physical and sexual vitality of my male patients.

These are the powerful secrets that re-ignite their sex lives and turn them back into real men.

You'll lose your gut, build functional strength and regain youthful sexuality. Starting as soon as you begin practicing the secrets in 12 Secrets to Virility.

And you can do it without spending a single extra dollar when you...

Try EstroCleanse Today RISK-FREE

EstroCleanse is a simple and effective way to get rid of excess estrogen and reclaim your manhood. I've used a version of this formula for decades. It's worked on thousands of men and their medical records prove it.

I've seen countless men come to my clinic with the same symptoms. They walk in feeling fat, fatigued and bored. And after a few months, EstroCleanse helps them start acting and feeling like real men again.

You can try my new formula with NO RISK.

If you decide it's not for you, not a problem. You get all your money back... including what you paid for shipping and handling!

I stand behind everything I do and have a very open policy when it comes to helping you maintain your manhood. If it doesn't work for you can get a full and prompt refund.

And even if you need a refund, you can keep 12 Secrets to Virility with my compliments.

It's a no-lose offer.

But based on my experience, I know you'll appreciate EstroCleanse. I use it almost every day with my patients and wouldn't think of going without it. In this estrogen-saturated world we live in, I'd be crazy not to.

Just click the link below and get started today.

To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD
* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

NOTE:
The women of our modern day society are facing a silent crisis, that includes a plethora of serious diseases that were not present in our ancestors. The cause of these new diseases all have one thing in common: the molecule estrogen. (LINK)

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http://www.alsearsmd.com/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/sya-bpa/
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/bisphenol-a-47091707

MooPig FWD Email :: "BEEF"

Snagged by Pat Darnell | Feb 16, 2013 | Bryan TX

Al Sears, MD
11903 Southern Blvd., Ste. 208
Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411

February 15, 2013

Your Meat Now Raised On Candy

Dear Patdarnell,

Red meat will kill you! Stay away if you want to live!

The message is coming from everywhere recently. Whether it’s news articles and reports, or clinical studies published in scientific journals.

Fortunately for you, that juicy steak or burger is just as good for you as it always was. You just have to know where to find the right meat.

Then you’ll be able to enjoy the benefits of quality protein and delight in the savory taste of the red meat that makes your mouth water just thinking of it.

You see, most studies on red meat don’t differentiate between commercial beef and pasture-raised meat. And that’s where there’s a problem.

Because commercial beef is not only different by nature, it may be giving you health problems. It has the wrong kind of fat that’s unhealthy for your heart. But, contrary to what you hear, this is not because it’s red meat. In fact, I regard some beef as among the healthiest of all foods.

Cattle, in one form or another have been on this planet for millions of years. They have successfully survived by grazing on grasslands, prairies, and hillsides. Cattle’s natural diet consists of grasses and legumes. Their anatomy and physiology reflect their diet.

Most commercial cattle no longer eat their natural diet. Growers feed them cheap grain and other “feedstuff” in order to fatten them up quickly.

What are some of these “feedstuffs”?

Right now it’s chocolate bars, rainbow sprinkles, gummy worms, and stale cookies.

Corn prices are so high that ranchers are adding these processed sugary junk foods to the cows’ diet as I write to you.1 They rationalize it by saying the cows use all the sugar since the rumen in their first stomach is loaded with microbes that “break large sugar molecules into volatile fatty acids that are absorbed directly into the bloodstream, providing most of the cow’s energy and aiding milk production.”

But just because they can feed this stuff to cows, doesn’t mean they should. A direct injection of sugar to the bloodstream is causing the cows to suffer from the same chronic diseases humans do when they eat this way.

It’s no wonder red meat has been linked to certain chronic health concerns. How could any cow that’s raised in such a way remain healthy and produce healthy beef? It’s next to impossible.

It causes the cows to become fatty instead of lean. Toxins, hormones and anibiotics then accumulate in the fat. These get passed on to you when you eat commercial beef.

The bottom line is factory-farm red meat is simply horrible stuff. And you have every right to be scared to death of it.

However, pasture-raised, grass-fed beef could not be any more different. You have nothing to fear when you make it a part of your diet. In fact, pasture-raised, grass-fed beef is so loaded with health benefits, I’d even go as far as to call it a “super food.”

The Journal of Animal Science found that the more grass cattle ate, the more nutritious their beef became.2

Grassfed products have three to five times more conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) than that of commercial animals.3 CLA is an important nutrient that has cancer-preventing properties.

I even read one study that revealed grass-based diets for cows help them produce more vitamin A and E, as well as cancer fighting antioxidants such as glutathione and superoxide dismutase (SOD) compared to grain-fed cows.4

In fact, grass fed beef has 4 times more Vitamin E.5 Grain fed cows have so little vitamin E, one of our most powerful antioxidants, that researchers at Colorado State University recommend supplementing... the cows. They say each head of commercial cattle should be supplemented with 1,000 IU a day because they are so deficient.

Some grocery stores are starting to offer grass fed beef. You can ask the butcher. But don’t be fooled by beef labeled “organic.” The organic label only means that the cattle do not have detectable levels of antibiotics or hormones in their body at the time of slaughter. It does not mean that ranchers have never subjected cattle to antibiotics or hormones. Also most organic cattle eat nutritionally deficient grains.

Grassfed meat is a deep red to maroon color, not pink like commercial beef. And grassfed beef is very lean. The flavor is richer and tastes like wild game.

The surest way to get grassfed products is through a private farm.

Some good ones that I like are:

US Wellness Meats – One of the original grass-fed meat suppliers, and the one I use, with a unique way of raising cattle to have more CLA and omega-3 (grasslandbeef.com)

Weatherbury Farm – This Pennsylvania farm also has grass-fed lamb (grassfed.weatherburyfarm.com)

Wallace Farms – The owner of this Iowa farm has a master’s degree in ruminant nutrition from Iowa State University also raises fish naturally (wallacefarms.com)

Mount Vernon Farm – Family owned since 1827! They use rotational grazing so everything is sustainable as nature intended. They also partner with a nearby farm to produce ecologically grown vegetables (mountvernonfarm.net and waterpennyfarm.com).

To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD

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1. Breselor, S. "When Corn Costs Soar, Let Cows Eat Cake." Wired Magazine. www.wired.com. Jan 14, 2013. Retreived Jan 15, 2013.
2. French P, et al. "Fatty acid composition, including conjugated linoleic acid, of intramuscular fat from steers offered grazed grass, grass silage, or concentrate-based diets." J Anim Sci 2000; 78: 2849-2855
3. Dhiman T, Anand G, Satter L, Pariza M. "Conjugated linoleic acid content of milk from cows fed different diets." J Dairy Sci. 1999 Oct;82(10):2146-56.
4. Daley C, Abbott A, Doyle P, Nader G, Larson S. "A review of fatty acid profiles and antioxidant content in grass-fed and grain-fed beef." Nutr J. 2010 Mar 10;9:10.
5. Smith, G. "Beef for domestic and international markets - strategic alliances for supplementing vitamin E to increase shelf-life and retail case life." Presentation to the Liquid Feed Symposium on the American Feed Industry Association, Omaha, Nebraska. 1996.

MooPig's Site Review :: "This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow"

This is a Very Cool Blog
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 23, 2012 | Bryan TX

MooPig loves the ridicule of despots, the implosion of bombasts... so apparently does Tom Tomorrow.

This Modern World:
January 22, 2012
Tom Tomorrow:  Scenes from the class war
EXCERPT  |  " ... I would have assumed that the rich get certain amenities in hospitals — larger, private rooms, more attentive doctors, etc. But this would never have occurred to me:

The bed linens were by Frette, Italian purveyors of high-thread-count sheets to popes and princes. The bathroom gleamed with polished marble. Huge windows displayed panoramic East River views. And in the hush of her $2,400 suite, a man in a black vest and tie proffered an elaborate menu and told her, “I’ll be your butler.”(NINA BERNSTEIN. Published: January 21, 2012. HERE)

The punchline, buried deep in the article, comes after an anecdote about the Saudi King taking up an entire floor at another hospital:

The hospital said in a statement: “NewYork-Presbyterian is dedicated to providing a single standard of high quality care to all of our patients.”

But never mind the absurd disparity between first class hospital accommodations and what the rest of us are likely to experience back in steerage. Here’s the bit that’s likely to go viral in the wingnut zombie-lie media:

But even the rainmakers — doctors who bring in such patients — can sometimes resent the tilt toward luxury.

“The one misgiving is patients with Medicare, which pays physicians almost nothing,” said Dr. Brian Katz, 59, a laparoscopic surgeon in scrubs who took a break in the same library later. “Yet those patients will come up here and pay to enjoy five-star comfort.”

The doctor is complaining that rich patients on Medicare can pay for the accommodations while he himself makes no profit. But watch for that to be distorted by Sean Hannity et al. into a story about welfare patients receiving luxury treatment on your tax dollars.

And speaking of the gilded age, here’s a fascinating little article about our plutocrat overlords, and how they behave when they think no one is watching. ... "

posted by Tom Tomorrow at 10:21 AM
'via Blog this'

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http://thismodernworld.com/archives/6622
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/nyregion/chefs-butlers-and-marble-baths-not-your-average-hospital-room.html?_r=2&hp

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MooPig's Nation Watch :: Oil Rich and Under-developed

WELCOME TO THE PLANET, South SUDAN!
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | July 9, 2011 | Bryan TX

South Sudan Becomes World's Newest Nation - FoxNews.com: EXCERPT  |  " ... "The Republic of South Sudan earned independence at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, breaking Africa's largest country in two. It marked the culmination of a January independence vote, which was guaranteed in a 2005 peace deal that ended the most recent north-south war.

" ... After the celebrations die down, residents of South Sudan face an uphill climb. While the new country is oil-rich, it is one of the poorest and least-developed places on Earth. Unresolved problems between the south and its former foe to the north could mean new conflict along the new international border, advocates and diplomats warn."

" ... Saturday's early morning celebrations were joyous for the freedom gained but tinged with the memories of family lost. At least 2 million people were killed in Sudan's last civil war, fought from 1983-2005. (AP. July 8, 2011. Read entire Article: [LINK]) ... "

[PHOTO LINK]Sudan 2006 ©Gloria Chan/MSF

EXCERPT | " ... [T]hree years after the official end of the North-South civil war, health structures other than MSF’s do not exist and peace cannot be taken for granted. (Doctors without Borders. July 21, 2008. [LINK]) ... "

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Donate Japan

Japan Disaster Relief: Where to Give
"With Thousands Feared Missing, Relief Organizations Offer Assistance;" (ABC NEWS)

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | March 12, 2011 | [SOURCE]

" ... Rescue and recovery efforts have already begun and are expected to last for months, with numerous international organizations and governments offering assistance. Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he dispatched 50,000 troops for recovery efforts as powerful aftershocks continue to rattle the region.
To make donations, below is a list of organizations contributing to the relief effort. (ibid.) ... "

Japan Relief Donations
Save the Children: Emergency Relief for Japan Quake
www.savethechildren.org/japanquake
Toll free: 800-728-3843
Text JAPAN or 20222 to donate.


The American Red Cross: Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief
www.redcross.org
Text REDCROSS or 90999 to make $10 donation by text message.


Salvation Army
donate.salvationarmyusa.org
Toll free: 800-SAL-ARMY
Text QUAKE or 80888 to donate $10


International Medical Corps
www.internationalmedicalcorps.org
Text MED or 80888 to donate $10


Doctors Without Borders
www.doctorswithoutborders.org


Global Giving
www.globalgiving.org
Text JAPAN or 50555 to donate $10